10-19-2016, 11:13 PM
(10-18-2016, 12:16 PM)Anthony Wrote: Both sides are exploiting this issue disgracefully and insensitively - the left with its "Did A Gun Save Her?" headline supplied to us by the notoriously anti-Second Amendment New York Daily News yesterday regarding the murder of Tyson Gay's daughter in Lexington, KY, and the right with its constant references to "Chicago" which reek of the worst sort of hypocrisy: They exalt "masculinity" when white men (like Donald Trump) show it, but when black men do - by refusing to forgive those who wrong them, which is the motive for like 99.9% of these "shootings in Chicago" - they are reviled in the sharpest and most stereotypical possible terms.
Hillary's positions, which she repeated again tonight, is 'close the loopholes'. She is not against a right to own and carry weapons. There are some regulations that would increase safety and attempt to keep weapons out of the hands of deplorables. Even Eric and I agree on certain steps, and she favors much the same steps.
I thought both candidates strolled way away from the truth in the third debate. Hiller wasn't about child safety. It was about a Washington DC law that essentially prevented anyone in Washington DC from owning or carrying weapons. The intent was to establish an individual right, not to ban child safety locks. I thought Hillary badly mischaracterized the case.
On the other hand Trump badly represented Hillary's position, painting her as an all in prohibitionist, which she is not.
A hot issue. Yes, there are folks on both sides who will inflame and divide given any opportunity.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.